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I was being mostly sarcastic/facetious. Again, as far as mixing, it's an obsession with people, not really a bad thing. My obsession is listening to a song I thought was finished and thinking: "Hey, what if I added a short fake breakdown here? Or use a pitch shifter for those 2 notes at the en...

chris harbin wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:58 pm

Just slam limiters everywhere, it will be fine..........

Yes, every song whose wave looks like a solid block is a great song.

I make music in all kinds and forms on differend instrumnets systems and ecosystems. Started as a bassplayer in heavymetel bands, slowly to playing bass in more comercial sounding bands. Then discovered a fourtrack recorder and got hooked on recording. I started my study for engineer in 1999 at the...

Nothing at all wrong with your Soundcloud loop, sure sounds good to me. Great work! I hear you. Today's music atmosphere does seem all about PRODUCTION, PRODUCTION, PRODUCTION, and it is depressing. But still, Hard Techno is a niche genre within that aforementioned atmosphere. Just consider the Gra...

I don’t think it’s down to production quality, it’s down to listeners’ preferences and expectations. sure, production quality does play a role (if it’s bad enough to detract from an otherwise great song, that’s gonna be a problem), but it’s not the biggest determining factor, far as I can tell. if ...

Endlessly doing "loops" and creating stuff that sounds just like the last one here :lol: I love it though. But I digress You sure do, I've finished at least more than 50 songs so far. :) But this is what I mean, the mi/ma-quality is nowhere near even "ok". In 2000 I didn't even ...

Ok thanks for enlightening me; I also didn't know you could change all the tracks' volumes at once.

What I'm wondering is: what kind of speakers actually output 20Hz?? And who can still hear 20Hz audio (or lower, unless you're an elephant) at age 18? :wink: My opinion is most speakers usually only start outputting audible audio at around 50Hz. But I've learned these tricks though: it's good to cut...

It seems quite clear to me that one can create the most brilliantly arranged song, use amazingly fresh sounds and pretty much invent a new music genre ... but if both your mixing and mastering is average-to-good, your song will never get to be "out there". And the opposite also rings true:...

I'm very confused with the link between the master volume and the track volumes. I have a project where some of the tracks are clipping badly but the master track isn't, so I thought, "I'll just lower the master volume and the tracks will stop clipping." Wrong :( My master is at -33dB now ...

Middle C is just a specific C, around 262 Hz. One system calls that C3, another system calls that C4, and I think some might even call it C5. I don't think every other DAW besides Ableton calls it C4 - for example, whether to call it C3 or C4 is a preference in Logic, and even when Logic is set to ...

Are you asking why middle C (MIDI note 60) is named differently across different music hardware/software? If so, it's just a matter of differing conventions. It varies between DAWs, and in some DAWs it's user-configurable, but I'm not aware of an option in Ableton for this. I'm not too much into te...

https://soundcloud.com/monoteksist/monoteksist-the-nomad-live-mix?si=0d437c97d08c45109918a8f35fa1f098&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Lots and lots of experimenting in this live mix, plus I'm a real sucker for beat programming so I'm quite proud of it. To...

In al the previous DAW's I've used, playing a sample at its root note would be C4, yet Live has it set to C3. Is there any reason for this to be the case and can I change it? Thank you. PS: I got my Komplete Kontrol A49 today :D. I really like the semi-weighted keys (haven't used it too much yet) an...

How do you do this in Live? The audio output device in Preferences can only be set to either outputs 1&2 OR 3&4 of my NI Komplete Audio 6 MK1, not both. Or is it impossible to do in Live and should I look for another DAW/piece of software? Audacity also has but 1 playback device. I've search...